Return of the Doomsday Missile

London: In a week when an irritated Donald Trump announced sanctions against Russia’s two largest oil companies, reportedly because negotiations over a ceasefire deal in Ukraine had stalled, Moscow announced the first successful test of its nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik. Coincidence? Possibly, but it was back in 2018 that President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new generation of “invincible” weapons, describing the Burevestnik as a revolutionary missile capable of unlimited range and unpredictable flight paths, perfect for by-passing Western missile defences. It was said at the time that when Putin released the video of how a strike with the Burevestnik might work, showing an animated missile crossing Europe, turning south down the Atlantic, bending around the Cape of Good Ho